Gator Cache

Description

Gator Cache is an easy to manage page cache for WordPress. Once installed, it automatically updates new and updated content in your cache. This keeps your website fresh while adding the superior performance advantage of a cache. Key features are as follows:

Greatly increases site performance by adding a page cache

Automatic update of cache when content is published or updated

Automatic update of cache when comments are approved

Compatible with WooCommerce, will not cache mini-cart in page

Compatible with bbPress, updates when topics, replies, etc are added

Compatible with WordPress HTTPS, will cache pages secured by the plugin when applicable

Compatible with WordPress Multisite

Compatible with Autoptimize

Compatible with JetPack Mobile Site

Compatible with WPMinifyFix

Posts can be cached for logged-in WordPress users by role. You can cache pages for Subscribers, Customers or other roles while skipping the cache for Administrators

Http caching supported with Apache and Nginx

Screenshots

The Gator Cache management panel.

Installation

Upload gator-cache.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Click on Settings or the GatorCache menu icon to run the automated setup

Click Install to perform the automated installation process

Check the “enabled” box and update your general settings

FAQ

Installation Instructions

Upload gator-cache.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Click on Settings or the GatorCache menu icon to run the automated setup

Click Install to perform the automated installation process

Check the “enabled” box and update your general settings

Does GatorCache write to my htaccess file?

No, GatorCache does not write to your htaccess. However, recommended Apache rewrite rules are provided, based on your settings, that you can copy and paste to your htaccess file to enable http caching.

How do I delete the entire cache?

Click on the “Gator Cache” button on your admin toolbar. From the menu below, choose “Purge entire cache”. Alternatively, you can navigate to the Gator Cache settings to the Debug tab and use the purge button.

What is Cache Warming?

Typically when a cache is refreshed, the cached file and it’s contents are deleted. This is what GatorCache does when a post or page is updated. Then when a vistor visits that page, the cache is re-generated on the fly. This works well in most scenarios. However, if your pages are really slow when not cached, you can set GatorCache to “warm the cache”. This simply means that when a post is updated and the content is removed from the cache, the post url will be pinged in the background in order to re-generate the cached content. This will prevent any visitors from getting non-cached content and slow-loading pages. Please note that when you purge the entire cache, and have cache warming enabled, that this will not regenerate the cache for the entire site.

Reviews

I have tried so many plugins to improve my WooCommerce site. WP Fastest Cache, W3 Total Cache, Hummingbird – the list goes on and on. ALL of them were completely USELESS with caching WooCommerce products pages.

With this plugin, product pages load instantaneously. The only negatives are the images take time to load. I also tried using CDN (MaxCDN) and it looked like a mobile website from the 90’s. I’ve stopped using the CDN for now. Quite honestly, the site loads faster than using a CDN.

That’s a minuscule price to pay. If you have WooCommerce, you MUST use this plugin. It’s the only one that specifically caches Products pages. No extra configuration necessary for it to work unless you want to tweak. But out of the box, it does what you need.